RHINEBECK, N.Y. -- More than 30 years ago, the Poughkeepsie Journal published a photo of Lucy Bohnsack and noted that she was the first baby in the publication's coverage area that had to be sent home in a car seat. On Tuesday, Bohnsack's own baby girl made local headlines for being the first local infant born in 2013.

Bohnsack and her husband Ben Matthews, also 30, were initially planning to name their new baby girl Olive, but when they met their daughter, the Catskill couple was not sure if it felt like the right fit.

Maybe Olive is the right name after all, Bohnsack said, but other names under consideration were Sophie and Marian.

Bohnsack was planning to take a couple of days to think it over while she recovers from having a Cesarean section at Northern Dutchess Hospital.

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The infant was born two weeks after the original estimated delivery date and weighed in at 7 pounds, 9 ounces, and was 19 inches long.

On Sunday, Bohnsack and Matthews went to Northern Dutchess Hospital's Neugarten Family Birth Center, where the staff gave her medicine to induce labor, and contractions began.

She did not get any sleep Sunday night, and Bohnsack said she was given different medicine to help move the process along on Monday with no progress, followed by two episodes in which her daughter's heart rate dropped.

"That's when they called for a C section," said Bohnsack.

During the procedure, Bohnsack said Matthews stayed by her side, stroking her head to comfort her, with the anesthesiologist also providing comforting words.

Bohnsack and Matthews said they were excited their child was born.

The couple has been together for nine years and married for three.

About nine months ago, Bohnsack said they decided the time was right to have a baby.

"I was waiting for a certain point in my career," said Bohnsack, who owns a craft and design business, "and he was waiting for a certain point in his," she added of her husband, a computer programmer at Visco Software in Kingston.

The pair has been preparing for parenthood. Bohnsack highlighted preparing their home's nursery and babyproofing the house, taking classes, participating in prenatal workouts, and getting maternity pictures taken among activities she and Matthews have shared over the last nine months.

"We had fun with it," she said.

In the last 24 hours, Bohnsack said going from pregnancy to parenthood completely changed her perspective.

"It was hard to imagine her in your life before, and she hasn't even been here 24 hours," she said. "And now ... how can you imagine her gone? (It's like) she's always been here."

At Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, Pleasant Valley resident Jennifer Manzi gave birth at 3:41 a.m. to a baby boy who weighed in at 8 pounds, 6 ounces. As of Tuesday evening, Manzi had not yet formally named the infant.